Chicksands
Chicksands is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.
Chicksands is a village in the civil parish of Campton and Chicksands in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. It gives its name to MOD Chicksands, a military base which was developed from the 1930s on the Chicksands Priory estate. The village is on the River Flit and lies immediately west of the town of Shefford. At the 2021 census the Chicksands built up area as defined by the Office for National Statistics had a population of 731. The wider parish of Campton and Chicksands, which also includes the village of Campton, had a population of 1,895.
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Worth seeing in and around Chicksands
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cainhoe Castle
Cainhoe Castle was an 11th-century Norman castle, located near the village of Clophill, in the county of Bedfordshire, England. Cainhoe Castle was a motte and triple bailey castle, built by Nigel d'Aubigny, a Norman Knight, sometime after the Norman Invasion.
3.3 km · 11th century Norman castle in England · Wikipedia - 02Southill Park
Southill Park contains the site of late medieval Gastlings or Gastlyns Manor House and is the name given to a country house in Southill, Bedfordshire, its adjoining privately owned gardens and separate public parkland; it includes a lake and woodland. Its focal point is an early Georgian house, for disambiguation known as Southill Park House which is a heritage-listed building in the highest category.
3.6 km · Grade I listed country house in Southill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Marys Church, Clophill
The present St Mary's Church is located in the centre of the small village of Clophill, between Bedford and Luton in the county of Bedfordshire in the South Midlands of England. The new church, built in 1848, replaced the old church by order of the Church Commissioners in 1850.
3.4 km · church in Clophill, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4 km · church in Lower Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi
St Francis of Assisi Church is a Catholic parish church in Shefford, Bedfordshire. The church was built from 1882 to 1884 and designed by Samuel Joseph Nicholl in the Gothic Revival style, and includes the remains of a chapel built in 1791.
1.7 km · Catholic church building in Shefford, Central Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Parish Church of All Saints, Campton
The Church of All Saints is the Anglican parish church in the village of Campton, Shefford, Bedfordshire, England. Its official title is Campton and Chicksands Parish and encompasses the villages of Campton and Chicksands and the nearby military base, despite the base having its own church dedicated to Saint Gilbert of Sempringham.
900 m · church in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Chicksands Priory
Chicksands Priory is a former monastic house at Chicksands in Bedfordshire.
600 m · Grade I listed country house in Bedfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chicksands
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 18 km · London Stansted (STN), 44 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 63 km
- London, Essex → Chicksands62 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £7–9
- London → Chicksands62 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £7–9
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Chicksands115 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chicksands
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chicksands. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.
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Next door to Chicksands
Chicksands is 54 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sheffordtown and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, UK1.9 km
- Meppershallvillage and civil parish in Bedfordshire, UK2.6 km
- Camptonvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK900 m
- Upper Gravenhurstvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Upper Stondonvillage in Bedfordshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Campton and Chicksandscivil parish in Central Bedfordshire, England800 m